Originally Posted by San Rensho
One is marginally harder to cut than the other, but anyone that really wants your bike can get through the NY lock in less than 1 minute with power tools.
Both "Cycling Plus" and "Sold Secure" got similar outstanding results for the Kryptonite New York locks. Their tests included the typical power tools actually used by crooks, not the sorts of "super" power tools that might be available at a multi-million dollar Nascar car building facility.
And, with the power tools that are actually used on the streets by crooks, the "Gold" level locks lasted ten minutes, or more. Ten very loud minutes, where a crook would be drawing attention from anyone within two or three blocks hearing distance.
As a result, in my own crime ridden city, it is unheard of for a bike to be stolen using power tools. Crooks prefer silent tools, and target bikes that have cable locks, and $15 u-locks from phony lock companies such as Master lock.